Liu Qi was the eldest son of Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Hengshu, born in 188 BC, the sixth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.
When Liu Qi was born, his father Liu Heng was still a concubine of Dou Ji, the acting mother of the king, and died with the empress dowager in 180 BC.
Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, and others destroyed Zhu Lü and made Liu Heng emperor, for Emperor Wen of Han.
In the first month of the same year, Liu Qi was made crown prince as Liu Heng's eldest son, and his mother Dou Ji was also made empress, Liu Qi had a strong personality when he was crown prince, because of a dispute with Liu Xian, the prince of Wu, he actually beat Liu Xian to death with a chessboard, and Emperor Wen of Han ordered Liu Xian's body to be sent back to Wu for burial, and when Liu Xian's father Liu Hao of Wu was furious, he said: The whole world is Liu's family, and when he dies in Chang'an, he is buried in Chang'an, so why return to Wu to be buried? However, he sent the body back to Chang'an for burial to show his dissatisfaction with the imperial court.
From then on, Liu Hao, the King of Wu, resented Liu Qi and also resented the imperial court, because Liu Qi could not control his emotions and killed Liu Xian, the son of Liu Hao, the King of Wu, and also laid the cause of the rebellion that later caused the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms. In addition, when Liu Qi was crown prince, he was impeached by Zhang Shizhi, who was then the commander of the bus order, and when he took the throne, he demoted Zhang Shizhi to the state of Huainan.
On July 6, 157 BC, Emperor Wen of Han died at Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, and Liu Qi, as crown prince, took the throne as Emperor Jing of Han. In the third year of emperor Jing's reign, in 154 BC, the imperial envoy Dafu Chao mistakenly wrote a letter to cut the domain to propose the policy of cutting the domain, which was very much in line with the wishes of Emperor Jing of Han, but it caused dissatisfaction among the princes who had long wanted to rebel, so the rebellion of the seven kings such as Liu Hao the King of Wu, Liu Peng the King of Chu, Liu Sui the King of Zhao, Liu Pei the King of Jinan, Liu Xian the King of Zichuan, Liu Ang the King of Jiaoxi, and Liu Xiongqu the King of Jiaodong began to openly rebel against the Seven Kingdoms.
The princes of the Seven Kingdoms rebelled under the pretext of rebellion and the Side of the Qing Dynasty, and wanted to seize the world. Chao's political enemy Yuan Ang offered Emperor Jing to quell the rebellion, and Emperor Jing of Han was silent for a long time, said a word, and sentenced Chao wrong to death. I will not apologize to the world for loving him alone.
So more than ten days later, Tao Qing, Lieutenant Chen Jia, Lieutenant Zhang Ou and other ministers impeached Chao chao and asked for a waist beheading, and Emperor Jing agreed.
In the name of the imperial deliberations, the lieutenant lured Chao into making a mistake in the upper court, but as soon as he reached the East Market, the lieutenant read out the edict of Liu Qi, the Emperor of Hanjing, and beheaded Chao on the spot.
Poor Chao mistakenly for the Han family's world, working day and night, before dying, he was completely in the dark, and finally ended up with the tragic end of the waist, and the whole family also suffered together.
After Chao's death, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms not only did not stop, but became more and more intense, and the rebellious princes occupied a lot of land, and Emperor Jing had no choice but to send the lieutenants Zhou Yafu and Dou Bao to suppress it.
Three months before and after the quelling of the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and in the process of counterinsurgency, from the edict he issued: Attacking the rebels to kill more deeply is a merit, beheading and capturing more than three hundred stones are killed, there is no place, dare to have an edict and those who are not as good as the edict are cut off, the Han Jing Emperor is actually a good killer.
After quelling the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, as the first meritorious servant of the pingjue, Zhou Yafu did not have a good end, because he often disagreed with the Han Jing Emperor, and only asked to resign from the official position of chancellor, and then he was taken into custody and tried for treason, and died of hunger strike in prison.
After his death, Emperor Jing was still angry and ordered the extermination of his princely state and the prohibition of his descendants as marquises.
After the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, Emperor Jing began to concentrate on the administration of the dynasty. According to records, Emperor Jing was very simple, benevolent, and loving of the people, and he advocated huang laozhi's theory, reduced punishment, reduced taxes, built water conservancy, advocated agriculture, and demanded that cases that were dissatisfied with people's hearts be retried to avoid unjust imprisonment.
The people created a lot of wealth in a peaceful and stable environment, during which the people were rich, well-clothed and well-fed, living and working in peace and contentment, the world was too peaceful and happy, and a prosperous scene.
During the reign of his father Emperor Wen of Han, it was called the reign of Wenjing.
During the reign of the Han Jing Emperor, except for quelling the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, there was never a large-scale use of troops, and the war with the Xiongnu was always controlled within a certain scale, and the policy of peace and pro-Xiongnu was still adopted.
In the sixth year BC, in 151 BC, the Han Jing Emperor's empress Bo Shi was deposed, and the following year, that is, in 150 BC, the crown prince Liu Rong was deposed, and Liu Rong was soon sent to Zhidu for interrogation on the charge of encroaching on the temple. After Liu Rong wrote a letter of apology to his father, he committed suicide in the Lieutenant's Mansion in despair.
In April of the same year, Wang Shi was made empress, and then Liu Che, the only son of Wang Shi, the Prince of Jiaodong, was made crown prince.
On March 9, 141 BC, Emperor Jing died at Weiyang Palace, reigning for sixteen years at the age of 48. Emperor Xiaojing, without a temple number, was omitted to be called Emperor Jing of Han in later generations, and his will ordered a group of palace people to be released to return home and remarry.
Buried in Yangling on March 18, 141 BC, southwest of Gaoling County, Shaanxi, Emperor Jing died and was succeeded by the crown prince Liu Che as Emperor Wu of Han.